Edgar Anstey Movies

Sets out to persuade businesspeople of the advantages of going from city to city by train. How it gives them time to relax, work or sleep in comfort.

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

Building a new harbour at Port Talbot - it’s a man’s world in which the only females are a dredger and two seafaring vessels.

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is...

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

Whether it is a paddle in the sea or a visit to some Roman remains, a day spent watching the countryside go by or an afternoon's inspection of a...

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a...

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.